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Over the past couple of years, superhero movies have turned away from the world of gym rats and started calling upon those actors and actresses usually earmarked for movies where the lead strums a tiny guitar. The Dark Knight kinda kicked things off when Marion Cotillard, and later, Joseph Gordon-Levitt got in on the act; the next Avengers will include two talents plucked right out of the indie world: Elizabeth Olsen, who's playing the Scarlet Witch, and Aaron Taylor-Johnson, who just joined as Quicksilver. We love this trend; there's no end to comic-book flicks, and no end to our love of the wide-eyed, complex, sensitive types. Now, here are a dozen more actors we'd like to see handed some superpowers. read more